Diogenes:"He must not have any contact with actual free-range fat people," she added.

Feh. I keep mine caged like veal calves. Do you know how many acres of cheesecake it takes to keep just one free range fattie?

Thats just mean. You really can't appreciate the beauty and majesty of a fat person, until you see a herd of them grazing on the open plains just before sundown. The way the wind rustles their chins, and how the light just seems to danced on their hands covered with the glaze of that last boston cream donut.......it just tears me up thinking about it.

LineNoise:Diogenes: "He must not have any contact with actual free-range fat people," she added.

Feh. I keep mine caged like veal calves. Do you know how many acres of cheesecake it takes to keep just one free range fattie?

Thats just mean. You really can't appreciate the beauty and majesty of a fat person, until you see a herd of them grazing on the open plains just before sundown. The way the wind rustles their chins, and how the light just seems to danced on their hands covered with the glaze of that last boston cream donut.......it just tears me up thinking about it.

If we shame them they will graze more in order to feel better about themselves. if they graze more you can send more sightseeing tours, which will make the tour guide rich. Anyone interested in a position as tour guide?

IlGreven:Funny, the same people who laugh at the fatties also laugh at New York for banning extra large Cokes. Which is it?

Both. If you're fat because you can't stop yourself from gulping down 64 fluid ounces of soda every time you stop at a gas station or fast food joint it means you lack self-control. The government protecting you from yourself has also had the negative impact of preventing me (someone WITH self-control) from enjoying a large beverage purchased at a gas station for the duration of a road trip.

Make being fat cost prohibitive. If the fatty wants healthcare he'll need to spend three times as much. If the fatty wants that extra large bucket of fried chicken it'll be $40. Simple economics. No shaming required.

If weight issues are linked with mental issues, adding psychological attacks is only going to make the problem worse. I have struggled with both depression and my weight for years, and articles like these, and the resulting Fark "all fat people should go kill themselves" threads haven't motivated me to exercise, they've made me want to hurt myself and/or drink myself into a stupor. It's hard enough for me to leave the house to begin with. Please don't make it even harder.

WhiskeyBoy:IlGreven: Funny, the same people who laugh at the fatties also laugh at New York for banning extra large Cokes. Which is it?

Both. If you're fat because you can't stop yourself from gulping down 64 fluid ounces of soda every time you stop at a gas station or fast food joint it means you lack self-control. The government protecting you from yourself has also had the negative impact of preventing me (someone WITH self-control) from enjoying a large beverage purchased at a gas station for the duration of a road trip.

Excellent point. And to bring it back to obesity, it's a complex disorder that can't be solved with something as blunt and general as shaming.

Wrong target. The people who should be shamed are the greedy farks who rake in monstrous amounts of dollars by selling unhealthy addictive feed to their herds of indentured custommers.But you would have to destroy the "capitalist" neofeudal structure of power in murika to do that, so won't happen

WTF Indeed:Make being fat cost prohibitive. If the fatty wants healthcare he'll need to spend three times as much. If the fatty wants that extra large bucket of fried chicken it'll be $40. Simple economics. No shaming required.

Anyone seen that one commercial for soup? The Oh Oh Oh crap. They end with a bunch of ladies going OOOHHH while a former fatty is in a blue dress that she can fit in now. That's great and all but she still has ham arms... I guess the soup doesn't help you if you have hams for arms...

Queensowntalia:If weight issues are linked with mental issues, adding psychological attacks is only going to make the problem worse. I have struggled with both depression and my weight for years, and articles like these, and the resulting Fark "all fat people should go kill themselves" threads haven't motivated me to exercise, they've made me want to hurt myself and/or drink myself into a stupor. It's hard enough for me to leave the house to begin with. Please don't make it even harder.

No. Education, heavy taxes making them prohibitively expensive and banning the farking things almost everywhere worked for smoking.

This prick wants a moral justification for being a coont "its for their own good"

A stranger makes any "shaming" comments about my appearance uninvited will get a smack in the farking face, assuming I can catch the cowardly little fark.

The social stigma went a long way as well though. People have always known cigarettes were bad for you (and actually if you look at the real science, the risk, while very real, is overblown). I can step outside for a smoke. I can afford a pack even if you have crazy prices.

But I gave up smoking mainly because you knew people looked at you and said, "man, you are an idiot for smoking". The other things help, sure, but eventually you have to make someone not want to be a smoker\fat\whatever.

WTF Indeed:Make being fat cost prohibitive. If the fatty wants healthcare he'll need to spend three times as much. If the fatty wants that extra large bucket of fried chicken it'll be $40. Simple economics. No shaming required.

We should.

We make being successful cost prohibitive, being male, being white, why not fat? They pay more for life insurance, why not health insurance?

Maybe you dems can make universal life insurance the next big thing? That would be a hoot.

Diogenes:WhiskeyBoy: IlGreven: Funny, the same people who laugh at the fatties also laugh at New York for banning extra large Cokes. Which is it?

Both. If you're fat because you can't stop yourself from gulping down 64 fluid ounces of soda every time you stop at a gas station or fast food joint it means you lack self-control. The government protecting you from yourself has also had the negative impact of preventing me (someone WITH self-control) from enjoying a large beverage purchased at a gas station for the duration of a road trip.

Excellent point. And to bring it back to obesity, it's a complex disorder that can't be solved with something as blunt and general as shaming.

And there are genetic conditions that either make people more prone to being fat, or outright can't help it. A lot of those chromosomal abnormalities can cause it (i.e. Angelman syndrome).